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Welshy



Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 4:28 pm    Post subject: Hints & tips and ideas? Reply with quote
    

What money saving tips, hints and ideas have you all got?

Katieowl



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oooh my favourite subject! What do you want to save money on Welshy?

Kate

Welshy



Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Katieowl wrote:
Oooh my favourite subject! What do you want to save money on Welshy?

Kate


Anything and everything as this is my favourite subject too

How about tights? What could they be used for

sally_in_wales
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Location: sunny wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welshy wrote:


How about tights? What could they be used for


chop them up for stuffing small sewing projects, use them washed and doubled for straining fruit for wine or jelly making, stretch over a domed wire frame to make fly screens for cakes or similar, use for tieing plants to canes, stretch over coat hanger shapes to make fairy wings

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Use them for straining and cleaning wax.

Welshy



Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I just read up online that they can also be used as a facial scrubber for cleaning your face by scrunching them together and apply just a little water to them and start srubbing your face, this will leave the face like a baby's bum

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welshy wrote:
I just read up online that they can also be used as a facial scrubber for cleaning your face by scrunching them together and apply just a little water to them and start srubbing your face, this will leave the face like a baby's bum


With a crease down the middle?

Welshy



Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mochyn wrote:
Welshy wrote:
I just read up online that they can also be used as a facial scrubber for cleaning your face by scrunching them together and apply just a little water to them and start srubbing your face, this will leave the face like a baby's bum


With a crease down the middle?




marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I save money by not buying tights - horrid uncomfortable things.

Ignore fashion and don't be vain - buy the plainest simplest clothes you can find and wear them until they are rags.

Bath/shower once or twice a week and strip wash on the other days.

Use half or less of whatever the packaging tells you is appropriate for cleaning products (personal and household).

Walk instead of driving if the distance is less than 2-3 miles.

Eat everything you buy - if you are fat, buy less, eat less.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welshy wrote:
Katieowl wrote:
Oooh my favourite subject! What do you want to save money on Welshy?

Kate


Anything and everything as this is my favourite subject too

How about tights? What could they be used for


Keep them on, and you won't get pregnant.

Although your toes may curl.

12Bore



Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Useful for Siamese twin bank robbers.....

Katieowl



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Store onions in them, and hang them up to dry.

Buy them all the same colour so if you ladder one leg you can cut it off and wear with another 'single' leg to make a pair.

Wear ladies thick tights under your work trousers to keep warm. Builders do this... but don't always confess. They just hope they don't get run over on the way home


Cut sections off and use to tie up your hair.

Kate

Welshy



Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I personally don't wear any tights but my neighbour gives me a bag full each month - freshly washed - so far I used them as growing bags for allsorts of veggies and also use them with my soap nuts for my washing

Even my old wellies and boots get recycled as I use them as planters for succulent and flowers, what do you use your old shoes, boots or wellies for

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Your neighbour gets through a bagful of tights a month?

I wear my old shoes, boots etc My wellies are about 25 years old! I rarely wear them, but I'm still amazed that the rubber hasn't degraded in that time. My "going out" shoes are a pair of black suede ballet flats which have been worn about three times and are at least 5 years old (I bought them from a CS). When I stopped working and no longer needed smart shoes they went to a CS. Footwear that is too disgusting to wear goes in the bin nowadays, because it really is rank by the time I give up on it .

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

marigold wrote:
Footwear that is too disgusting to wear goes in the bin nowadays, because it really is rank by the time I give up on it .


Yup. Same here. I was sorting through underwear the other day and wondered what to do with old socks/tights etc and now I know!

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